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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.
President Obama is calling for a big increase in the use of body cameras for police officers in the United States, following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in the St.Louis suburb of Ferguson. Mr.Obama says he wants 75 million dollars spent on providing tiny lapel cameras for 50,000 more officers to wear when they are on patrol. Our North America correspondent, x, says the aim is to build trust. I was in Ferguson for much of last week, and it's absolutely clear that you have a police force presiding over a community where there is little trust between the two, and what President Obama is saying is these funds will be spent over three years and go towards the cost of these body cameras, so that the public would think Right, okay, well, this is being recorded, this interaction, and then people would be able to make a proper judgement. Because of course, in the whole case of Michael Brown, there were such conflicting accounts of what actually unfolded.
The International Criminal Court in the Hague has rejected an appeal by the Congolese militia leader, Thomas Lubanga, against his conviction for using child soldiers. The judges also dismissed a challenge against his 14-year sentence. At his original trial, Mr. Lubanga was found to have recruited children under the age of 15 to fight during the conflict more than a decade ago in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Some of them were used as his personal body guards. Mr. Lubanga is the first person to have been convicted by the ICC.
The World Food Program says that for the first time in four years, it will supply no food aid in December to 1.6 million Syrian refugees because of a lack of funding. Until now, refugees had been assumed with food vouchers to use in shops in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. The WFP said the move would have devastating consequences for refugees already struggling to cope with the cold weather. Speaking at an unofficial camp in Lebanon, x from the WFP said people were clearly in need. Many of the refugees are not prepared for this winter. They are living in informal settlements, like this one. Plastic sheetings, you know, they are taking cover. They are trying to burn whatever they can, so that they have fire at night to warm their kids. It's a very difficult situation.
The former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has decided to stand down next year after more than three decades as a Labour member of Parliament. He made the announcement to party activists in Scotland. I'm not going back to Westminster, not to the House of the Commons after the general election, and not to the House of Lords. It is Fife where our home is and where we will be, where our children,John and Fraser, who are here tonight, are happily at school, and it's from Fife where I will do the new and extended work as the United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education. Mr. Brown spent ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer
and three as Prime Minister before his party lost power in 2010.
World news from the BBC.
The Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, has demanded explanations from the armed forces on the circumstances of the kidnapping of a General by the FARC two weeks ago. General Ruben Dario Alzate and two companions were abducted while traveling by boat in a remote jungle area where the rebels were known to operate. The hostages were freed on Sunday. The kidnapping led the government to suspend peace talks with the rebels.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haidar al-Abadi, appears to have forced more than 20 officials at his Interior Ministry to take early retirement. He said this was part of his effort to restructure the security forces.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has said that Moscow is being forced to withdraw from the construction of a gas pipeline which would have supplied gas to southern Europe via Bulgaria, by passing Ukraine, due to the E.U.'s reluctance to support the project. He was speaking after talks with his Turkish counterpart. Our Turkey correspondent, x, reports. It was planned to pump Russian gas across the Black Sea into Bulgaria and then into Europe, called South Stream. But challenged by the European Commission for breaking competition laws, it was also hit by the West's conflict with Russia over Ukraine. Now Vladimir Putin says it will be halted because of the E.U.'s opposition. He told journalists in Ankara that Russia would increase gas supplies to Turkey and lower prices.
And this year's BBC African Footballer of the Year has been named after hundreds of thousands of votes, Algeria and Porto star, Yacine Brahimi, has been declared the winner. From Portugal, here is x. Never before in the 23-year history of the competition has an Algerian won this award, but Brahimi won the prize after an unforgettable 2014. He scored a match-winning goal against Spanish giant, Barcelona, a hat-trick in the Champions League, and played a lead role as Algeria reached the World Cup knockout stages for the first time in their history. This was good enough for the BBC audience to vote him Africa's Best.
BBC News.
詞匯解析
version
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.版本；說法；譯本；形式
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The new version of this dictionary is not in use yet.
這本字典的新版本還未通行。
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architect
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.建筑師
n.【喻】締造者；創(chuàng)造者
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The architect was given/presented with a blank cheque to design a new city centre.
設(shè)計師被授予全權(quán)設(shè)計一個新的城市中心區(qū)。
He was the chief architect of the country's new economic policy.
他是制定國家新經(jīng)濟政策的總指揮。
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honeymoon
難度：2星擴展詞匯，屬常用10000詞
英漢解釋
n.蜜月；初始的熱火時期
v.度蜜月
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
There was always a honeymoon period when Mum started a new job.
媽媽每開始一份新工作總會有一陣兒新鮮勁。
用作動詞 (v.)
They're going to honeymoon in Europe.
他們打算在歐洲度蜜月。
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simply
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adv.簡單地；僅僅；簡直
參考例句
用作副詞 (adv.)
You may open the tin simply by pulling the puller.
你只要拉這個拉出器，就可以很容易地把罐頭打開。
Is success simply a matter of working hard?
是否只要勤奮就能成功？
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massive
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.巨大的；大量的；大規(guī)模的；大范圍的；嚴重的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The soldier suffered a massive haemorrhage and died soon after.
那個戰(zhàn)士經(jīng)受了大量出血的痛苦，不久便去世了。
The wedding got massive media coverage.
婚禮得到大眾傳播媒介的廣泛報道。
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isolate
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
vt.使孤立；隔離
adj.孤立的；單獨的
參考例句
用作及物動詞 (vt.)
We must isolate the handful of enemies to the maximum.
我們要最大限度地孤立一小撮敵人。
Scientists have isolated the virus causing the epidemic.
科學家們已分離出引起這種流行病的病毒。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
It would mean inability to close in and isolate him.
這樣，就不能把敵人驅(qū)逐到狹小的孤立的陣地上去。
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personal
難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞
英漢解釋
adj.私人的；個人的
n.(報刊)私人專欄
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
I have something personal to discuss with you.
我有點私事和你商量。
Personal cleanliness is important to health as well as to appearance.
個人清潔對于健康和儀表同樣重要。
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